What's the best part of summer?

Summer Reading!

Click here for written descriptions of the books on the Summer Reading List.
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Book recommendations from other students

What teachers are reading and recommending to one another

Airborn

by Kenneth Oppel

(10th grade)

Beastly

by Alex Flinn

(10th grade)

Breathing Underwater

by Alex Flinn

(10th and 11th grade)

The Burn Journals

by Brent Runyon

(11th and 12th grade)

What Happened to Cass McBride?

by Gail Giles

(9th grade)

Deadline

by Chris Crutcher

(11th grade)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

by E. Lockhart

(10th and 11th grade)

Everlost

by Neal Shusterman

(9th grade)

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

(9th grade)

Heat

by Mike Lupica

(9th and 10th grade)

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

(10th, 11th, and 12th grade)

Hurt Go Happy

by Ginny Rorby

(10th grade)

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

(9th grade)

Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow

(11th and 12th grade)

Owning It: Stories About Teens with Disabilities

edited by Donald R. Gallo

(9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade)

Paper Towns

by John Green

(12th grade)

Peak

by Roland Smith

(9th and 10th grade)

The Schwa Was Here

by Neal Shusterman

(10th grade)

Son of the Mob

by Gordon Korman

(9th grade)

Stuck in Neutral

by Terry Trueman

(9th grade)

What My Mother Doesn't Know

by Sonya Sones

(9th grade)

Witness

by Karen Hesse

(10th grade)

World War Z

by Max Brooks

(11th and 12th grade)

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson

(12th grade)

Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

(12th grade)

Sold

by Patricia McCormick

(12th grade)

Summer Reading Letter - 2009.doc